postpono Latin · revision 33712

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=c. 50 BC, Caesar|origins=itc-pro *po-sine/o-}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [pɔs(t)ˈpoː.noː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [postˈpɔː.no]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''postpōnō''' (present infinitive postpōnere, perfect active postposuī or postposīvī, supine postpositum or postpostum); third conjugation^(Wiktionary)

+ Besides ''postposuī'' Wiktionary gives the perfect ''postposīvī''.^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|post-|pōnō|t2=to put, place]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(TLL) De Vaan explains [[m|la|pōnō]] from ⟨*po-sinō⟩ “to put down”, [[itc-pro|*po-sine/o-]], a compound of [[m|la|sinō]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ The TLL finds it from Caesar and Cicero's son on.^(TLL) Caesar has a journey given up and everything else set aside,^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) and Cicero's son writes that he put everything after obeying his father's advice.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is to put after, to rank as less important: Horace has putting honest duty after a harlot, and Justin ranking Hannibal below Alexander the Great.^(Lewis & Short 1879) It is also to put off or set aside.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Lewis & Short note that it is classical but not in Cicero himself.^(Lewis & Short 1879) Church Latin has “place or put after or later”.^(Stelten 1995) English [[m|en|postpone]], “put off to a later time”, is from it, about 1500.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 50 BC – Caesar, of setting everything aside.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 1st century BC – Cicero's son, in a letter.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ * 65–8 BC – Horace, of putting duty after pleasure.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 1500 – English [[m|en|postpone]].^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To put after, treat as of less importance, [[m|en|neglect]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # To set aside; to [[m|en|postpone]], [[m|en|defer]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[pōnō]]

+ * [[posthabeō]]

+ * [[en|postpone]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}